Gathering Script

Theme

Being overly inebriated at a gathering leads to fights in a relationship

Premise

Sophie and Garrett are a young couple on vacation with a few friends in Havasu City drinking and partying on a plantain boat in a cove. The group has been partying on the boat for around 3 hours and many of the guys have been drinking consistently since the moment they set anchor. Sophie and Gavin are sitting at the back of the boat fighting as it is speeding back to the camp grounds. Gavin is extremely drunk and Sophie is extremely mad.

Program

When partying and drinking in Havasu, a man who is engaged should not get extremely drunk and dance and flirt with other girls. These things cause issues in relationships because if the significant other has any ounce of jealousy in them, it will be expressed as anger. A man who is engaged should not be getting extremely drunk and hopping from boat to boat when he is not a good swimmer to begin with.

In relationships the two parties are supposed to be aware of each other’s feelings all the time. If the couple loves each other, they think of the other persons feelings before they act. When one person is under the influence of alcohol that person should make sure to not get too far gone. It is not fair to the significant other if the other gets disgustingly drunk because the drunk person does not know what they are doing.

Treatment

Sophie and Garrett are sitting on the back of a small speeding boat that is heading back to the groups camp grounds. They have outcast themselves from the others to make it feel like they are protected while having a serious fight. Just hours before they left the cove Garrett had gotten belligerently drunk as Sophie sat and watched Garrett flirt and dance with other girls completely unaware of Sophie’s glaring eyes. Sophie is very distraught and hurt because of the things she saw him doing. She had told him multiple times to lay off the beers, but his pressuring friends and strangers made sure there was a beer in his hand the entire time.

As the couple are on the boat ride back to camp Sophie refuses to speak to Garrett, until he eventually talks her into telling him why she is so upset. She tells him about how he is extremely drunk and she’d asked him to slow down multiple times. She tells him that she saw him flirting and dancing with other girls, when he won’t ever even dance with her. Garrett gets increasingly mad with every issue Sophie states. Garrett replys saying ‘it’s HAAAAAAAVVVVASUUUUUUUU, get drunk and loosen up”. This upsets Sophie even more and she adds in a few more issues as to why she is so upset.

Eventually the couple need to be separated for a short time so each of them can cool down before they start to talk about the issue again. When they are both ready to talk Garrett comes into the conversation with an extreme amount of remorse and guilt. The conversation ends on a mutual note as they arrive at the camp site, with Sophie and Garrett calming down a bit.

The conversation is started back up again in the security of their tent where Garrett and Sophie both cry over the situation and the guilt and hurt they are both feeling. Garrett then decides he needs to take a walk and sober up with his friend Andrew. He tells Sophie they won’t be long and they disappear. An hour later Sophie awake to hear Andrew climbing back into his tent and asks where Garrett is. Andrew replies telling her that Garrett is down at the beach still hanging out with a few of the guys. This upsets Sophie and she then cries herself to sleep again.

When Garrett finally arrives back to the campsite he is even more drunk than he was before he left. Sophie confronts him and asks why he didn’t come back when he said he would and he apologizes and said he was just hanging out and having fun. They continue to fight even more and Garrett decides to go behind the tent to make himself throw up the current alcohol in his stomach. This upsets Sophie even more and she is back to that hyperventilating cry again as Andrew and his girlfriend listen in the next tent over. Sophie just keeps asking, in between gasps for air, why he would ever do this to her?

Once they both calm down again, they lay down in the tent together with the tent door unzipped to let the air in. Sophie lays her head on Garrett’s chest to make sure she can always hear him breathing and she wakes up every few hours to poor some water in his mouth to try and keep him hydrated. The next morning they don’t go out to party on the boat with the rest of their friends.

Behavorial Composite

1.) GARRETT is sitting forward with his elbows on his legs and his face in his hands often roughly rubbing his blood shot, alcohol glazed eyes.

SOPHIE sits with her back in the corner of two converging cushioned seats. Her knees are up and tight against her body, her face beet red from the sun and her quick hyperventilating crying. She raises her hands to her tear ridden face to wipe them off.

(Everyone else on the boat is trying not to stare. Except one friend, ANDREW, sitting across from the couple who is layed back and watching the couple fight)

GARRETT starts to get angry. He rams his face closely to SOPHIE’S as he speaks fiercely in her face denying her accusations of flirting and dancing with other girls.

ANDREW is now sitting up straight very aware of the situation that could occur.

SOPHIE counters his fierce voice with an enraged throw of her hands and boldly tells GARRETT to back off and get out of her face.

GARRETT does not budge.

ANDREW then gets up quickly from his seat and calmly but firmly places his hand on GARRETT’S chest and tells the two to separate.

SOPHIE immediately moves away from GARRETT.

2.) SOPHIE slowly gets out of the tent to see what GARRETT is doing. She takes two steps and sits on the bench as she cries. She then hears GARRETT with his hand down his throat gagging trying to force himself to vomit all the alcohol he had consumed moments before arriving back at the tent.

SOPHIE leans on her knees with her hands in her face crying. She is rocking back and forth and in between sobs she asks why he’s done this to her over and over again.

GARRETT comes back around the tent and carefully sits next to SOPHIE.